My disk has a few scratches...sometimes the music slows down, and you can't see effects such as fog and what. This particularly happens on the "outter wall". Oh well, I got it at a killer price on ebay.

The DS game is the sequel to the gba game Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. I'd STRONGLY suggest you play that one first, and make sure to get the right ending.

They're actually side scrolling rpgs, but they're unbelievably fun. "They" being SotN and the gba titles, which were inspired by the former.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is a ps game in which you play as Alucard, Dracula's little whippersnapper (named after his father), and you go kick his *ss because the Belmonts aren't up to this one.

In the gba games, you play as various people, and they're modeled after the ps, so if you liked one you should like them all.
But Harmony of Desonance sucks, I'll say that right now.

My disk has a few scratches...sometimes the music slows down, and you can't see effects such as fog and what. This particularly happens on the "outter wall". Oh well, I got it at a killer price on ebay.

Go to somewhere like Gamespot or another gameing place and see if they'll clean your CD for you, I've had it done and personally it really works. I've had games that just got beaten up over the years and they played like they were amost new :3